PANAMA CANAL TREATY HEARING BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON SEPARATION OF POWERS OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY UNITED STATES SENATE NINETY-FIFTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION PART 1 JULY 22, 1977 Printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON : 1977 94-468 0 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, D.C. 20402 COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY JAMES O. EASTLAND, Mississippi, Chairman JOHN L. MCCLELLAN, Arkansas STROM THURMOND, South Carolina EDWARD M. KENNEDY, Massachusetts CHARLES MCC. MATHIAS, Jr., Maryland BIRCH BAYH, Indiana WILLIAM L. SCOTT, Virginia ROBERT C. BYRD, West Virginia PAUL LAXALT, Nevada JAMES ABOUREZK, South Dakota ORRIN G. HATCH, Utah MALCOLM WALLOP, Wyoming FRANCIS C. ROSENBERGER, Chief Counsel and Staff Director SUBCOMMITTEE ON SEPARATION OF POWERS JAMES B. ALLEN, Alabama, Chairman ROBERT C. BYRD, West Virginia ORRIN G. HATCH, Utah WILLIAM L. SCOTT, Virginia PAUL GULLER, Editorial Director CONTENTS CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER OF WITNESSES Page 13 Leonard, George S., attorney, Washington, D.C----- mand; accompanied by Col. James F. Thornton, legal advisor--- 91 AFTERNOON SESSION Crowe, Hon. Guthrie F., retired judge- Moorer, Adm. Thomas H., U.S. Navy, retired (Former Chairman of the Helms, Hon. Jesse, a U.S. Senator from the State of North Carolina--- Meeker, Leonard, Center for Law and Social Policy, Washington, D.C--- Crowe, Hon. Guthrie F., retired judge---- Gravel, Hon. Mike, a U.S. Senator from the State of Alaska - Helms, Hon. Jesse, a U.S. Senator from the State of North Carolina.. Leonard, George S., attorney, Washington, D.C---- McAuliffe, Lt. Gen. Dennis P., commander-in-chief, U.S. Southern Com- mand; accompanied by Col. James F. Thornton, legal advisor.- Meeker, Leonard, Center for Law and Social Policy, Washington, D.C.-. Moorer, Adm. Thomas H., U.S. Navy, retired (Former Chairman of the Murphy, Hon. John M., a U.S. Representative from the State of New York, Leonard, George S., attorney, Washington, D.C---- Parfitt, Hon. Harold R., Governor, Panama Canal Zone--- Gravel, Hon. Mike, a U.S. Senator from the State of Alaska. Murphy, Hon. John M., a U.S. Representative from the State of New York. Text of 1903 treaty (Isthmian Canal Convention. November 18, 1903). Total payments for the Canal Zone property as a result of the 1903 treaty- Assurances for present employees of the Panama Canal Company/Canal Zone Government under a new Panama Canal Treaty --- Congressional Research Service report on the role of the House of Repre- sentatives in the disposition of U.S. property in the Panama Canal Zone Letter to the President signed by four Chiefs of Naval Operations--- Joint statement by the Honorable Henery A. Kissinger, Secretary of State of the United States, and His Excellency Juan Antonio Tack, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Panama-1974. Senator Helm's Senate floor statement excerpted from the Congressional Record, December 4, 1975, entitled “The Panama Canal Negotiations |